Report: Man, 80, sliced neighbor with machete during yard feud

February 26, 2013|By Barbara Hijek, FloriDUH

It's a familiar tale: The front yard battlefront.

Alfred Henry Houghton, 80, is accused of brandishing a rusty machete and slicing his 57-year-old Zephyrhills neighbor with a rusty machete because of a yard dispute, reports the Tampa Bay Times in St. Petersburg.

Houghton was upset because his neighbor had "junk" in his yard and he worried that the neighbor's trees would topple onto his fence, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said.